No Wonder They Say Cab Drivers R Crazy!

[Willie Escalade]

Oh, yeah...I used to drive a city bus. In Los Angeles. Through Hollywood and on the Sunset Strip on a Friday or Saturday night. On Valley Blvd in the San Gabriel Valley. Through Koreatown. Watts. FUCKING GLENDALE!! So I KNOW how it is with some of these assholes out here.

[Dino Velvet]

Oh, yeah...I used to drive a city bus. In Los Angeles. Through Hollywood and on the Sunset Strip on a Friday or Saturday night. On Valley Blvd in the San Gabriel Valley. Through Koreatown. Watts. FUCKING GLENDALE!! So I KNOW how it is with some of these assholes out here.

Run into a few bad Armenian cabbies, Willie?

[Willie Escalade]

Run into a few bad Armenian cabbies, Willie?

Yes...especially when they had all of that construction on Brand Blvd. Ugh!

Don't get me started about Glendale Ave between the 134 and Los Feliz...

[BeardedOne]

Sorry. Been in this situation, did that, sad to say that there wasn't enough power under the hood to nail the bastard that I was trying to run down.

Dropping off a fare in Roxbury, MA (An annexed suburb of Boston), when a guy came up and assaulted the woman that was getting out of the cab. Tried to steal her purse, which she threw into the front seat of the cab (No partitions in the cabs I drove). He then tried to get into the front and grab the purse and god knows what else off of me. I pushed him out of the cab and threw it into gear, calling the dispatcher on the radio as I did. As the guy went out the door, he tore the microphone out of the dash and I was lucky my last call was heard.

I turned the cab around and drove straight for this guy and his gang/crew, with the full intent of nailing them against a parked car. Unfortunately, they were faster than the damned cab and dispersed before I reached them.

The only reason that I'm still alive is because of my last radio call. Before a single patrol car from the Boston Police arrived (The nearest District house was less than a mile away), no less than fifty cabs from at least four companies descended on the neighborhood, having been alerted by my dispatcher (Our company had two major affiliates and they, in turn, had a number of allies).

So yah, I have some sympathy for the "hit and run" cabbie in the video (Who clearly had far more people harassing him than I did).